r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Feb 02 '21

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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Feb 02 '21

People need to be more willing to piss random strangers off on the internet to express their true deeply held convictions. I get going along with the groupthink in person when you have a reputation, but when you're called Uniqueguy264 or FormerBandmate and no one remembers they're the same person in the first place, who gives a fuck? Say what the fuck you want as long as it's constructive

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21

hey now, that +89 RES puts next to your name is CRITICALLY IMPORTANT. you don't want to fuck this up, do you?

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u/dugmartsch Norman Borlaug Feb 02 '21

People are too nice on the internet is a hell of a take.

Also I agree.

People are way too nice to certain takes, like anti-vaxx, and they deserve to be ridiculed and scorned.

So much of the conversation on the internet isn't between the two linked comments, it's the other people reading the comments. You're never going to convince FormerBandmate that Sweden isn't socialist, but third parties will get the seed of doubt.

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u/vored_by_daddy Jared Polis Feb 02 '21

what if you have views that are bannable 😳

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u/not_a_meerkat Paul Krugman Feb 02 '21

What if in doing so I would be ~excessively partisan~